1.  Along Town Creek, a Tar River tributary, surging water uprooted oaks and sycamores and tossed around metallic propane gas tanks like balloons.

2.  Because of the speed with which low-lying areas here fill when dikes break, anyone caught in front of the surging water would be in danger.

3.  Here in El Salvador, recent arrivals live on river banks with only makeshift levees of discarded tires to protect them from surging waters.

4.  In the most severely flooded areas, refugees from the surging water returned to find homes and businesses partly submerged or caked in mud.

5.  It is the surging waters and the waterfalls that bring Yosemite to life.

6.  Roads and bridges have been washed away by the surging waters of the worst floods to descend upon southern Africa in half a century.

7.  The surging waters carved landforms unlike anything else on the continent.

8.  Police temporarily closed the main coastal highway between Tel Aviv and Haifa after surging waters threatened to sweep away cars.

9.  At least two people died after being swept away by the surging waters, said Singh.

10.  Hundreds of people were left homeless when the surging waters washed away their homes early Sunday.